Do you own, or have you ever owned, the No Alternative compilation?

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I do. I still enjoy "Glynis" by the Pumpkins and that Bob Mould song...

It came out when i was in 7th grade, and I think every one of my stoner friends had it.

― PB, Monday, 9 May 2005 00:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I had it at one point. Got it for free when I signed up for BMG Music Service once. Kind of hoped I'd get the one with the girl on the cover, but I got the boy. Don't remember much of what was on it besides the Soul Asylum cover of "Sexual Healing" and the unlisted Nirvana track.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Monday, 9 May 2005 00:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Just sold it back recently -- in that I hadn't played it in ten years, there you go. Ripped it before I did, though. "Glynis" I've heard the most because I compiled that with other Pumpkins goods a long time before -- an absolutely exquisite song. There's a performance of that and "Today" on the videotape that came out, which I still have around somewhere.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Used to. Lost it ages ago.

― giboyeux (skowly), Monday, 9 May 2005 01:02 (twenty-one years ago)

i bought it used a few years after it came out, then sold it.

― cindy margolis holocaust (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 9 May 2005 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

pretty great thread about it: No Alternative compilation: Gather here, corny old indie fux

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 9 May 2005 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

it also comes up on one of my favorite threads of all time: the crow ost is the worst record i have ever heard

― Al (sitcom), Monday, 9 May 2005 03:22 (twenty-one years ago)

2nd hand when I was like 12 or something. I have no idea what happened to it - that was so long ago!

― vanessa novaeris (novaeris), Monday, 9 May 2005 03:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Hah, I was just about to post something about borrowing it from a friend who listened to Green River and Temple of the Dog and Pearl Jam and Alice in Chains.. and lending her the Crow soundtrack. I really like that Nirvana song.

― daria g (daria g), Monday, 9 May 2005 03:50 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not an especially remarkable song, but for some reason I dig "Show Me" by Soundgarden.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Monday, 9 May 2005 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Here, still own it somewhere.

― BeeOK (boo radley), Monday, 9 May 2005 07:03 (twenty-one years ago)

The Bob Mould song is amazing, in a rip your own heart out and consume it raw like steak tartare sorta way.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:07 (twenty-one years ago)

A girl I liked in college, who was not particularly into music, played it all the time.

'Unseen Power,' 'Glynis,' 'Verse Chorus Verse,' 'All Your Jeans Were Too Tight,' and the Urge Overkill tune are all good, but that Bob Mould song is unlistenable.

― 57 7th (calstars), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

You should be fitted for a straightjacket and fed your meals through a straw, as you are not at all well in the head.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:13 (twenty-one years ago)

OTM on all the praise for the Bob Mould song and "Verse Chorus Verse."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Sure I owned it...lost it in a move maybe 5 or 6 years ago.

― Mark (MarkR), Monday, 9 May 2005 12:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Had a cassette copy a classmate made me in high school, then bought my own used CD copy a few years back. Never listen to it, but it has its moments.

Someone needs to start a "Beavis & Butthead Experience, Volume 1" Thread.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Someone needs to start a "Beavis & Butthead Experience, Volume 1" Thread.

Anthrax's Beastie Boys cover was great on that, as I recall.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i got this from BMG for free, and then felt guilty, since i asusmed that the charity got way less (like artists do) when you buy it through BMG instead of at the record store. ahh... the charity probably got next to nothign anyway... but i enjoy the mix to this day. play it on long car trips.

― chr1sb0y (chr1sb0y), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:20 (twenty-one years ago)

The subject line of this thread makes me think that ILX is like .... a UN court on rockism.

― A homunculus of Darby Crash, .... created for the purposes of *EVIL* (ex machina, Monday, 9 May 2005 14:22 (twenty-one years ago)

my girlfriend had it...the one at the time, that is...god, id forgotten about that soul asylum disaster...

― b b, Monday, 9 May 2005 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't buy it back then--I stole it.

But yeah, Nirvana and Mould...

― John 2, Monday, 9 May 2005 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

AND THEY'RE MARCHING THROUGH GEORGIA!

Something that is true, and something that I'm saying just to say it: I'll take the Sarah Mc track over the Mould track any day of the week.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Beavis and Butthead Experience had a pretty obscure Nirvana track on it too..."I Hate Myself and Want to Die"... don't think that was ever re-released anywhere, was it?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:35 (twenty-one years ago)

oh never mind, they started a new thread already.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I own it. Uncle Tupelo's cover of "Effigy" is another great one from the comp.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:39 (twenty-one years ago)

What a 90s relic! I seem to recall a really good American Music Club song on there too (and I'm not a fan). But my favorites were always Nirvana and Uncle Tupelo.

The Verlains had a great song on there too, with a chorus that went "You're starving for something and I've got nothing to feed you...and renegade good intentions turn to stone" or something like that. Now I'm gonna have to bust out that comp.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of 90's Relics....who remember?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000002OYG.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 9 May 2005 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh good lord. You'll be invoking the tribute album to Rumours next.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Matthew Sweet's "Superdeformed" would've been a fine entry on that POV: Side One, Track One thread.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the Uncle Tupelo track is searing. the bob mould track is like the best AOR ballad ever, the beasties live track is killer, and the unlisted nirvana track one of my favourites.

― stevie (stevie), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I still have it. So many great songs on it.

― miccio (miccio), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I still have this, for the Pavement thing and for "Effigy." And I don't mind the Mould, really, and like the M. Sweet a lot. Ah, the '90s.

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Monday, 9 May 2005 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I vaguely considered getting it when it came out, for the Hidden Nirvana Song. Then I eventually got it used several years later because OMG STRAITJACKET FITS. I've listened to the whole disc a grand total of once.

― Poppy (poppy), Saturday, 14 May 2005 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

good god i feel fucking old.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 14 May 2005 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah i loved "superdeformed." i remember seeing the video on 120 minutes a couple times.

― rajeev (rajeev), Saturday, 14 May 2005 04:58 (twenty-one years ago)

G-G-G-G-G-GEORGIA!

― j blount (papa la bas), Saturday, 14 May 2005 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I THINK ITS IRONIC, THAT A COMPILATION INTENDED TO SHOWCASE ALTERNATIVE MUSIC, IS CALLED 'NO ALTERNATIVE.' I THINK THATS IRONIC.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 14 May 2005 13:54 (twenty-one years ago)

...don't you think.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I DO IN FACT.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthrax's Beastie Boys cover was great on that, as I recall.

"99 Ways To Die" is the Beastie Boys?

The 2 Nirvana songs on these 2 CD's aren't exactly "obscure." I consider anything I would have listened to in 8th grade as anything but that.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I, too, got this through Columbia House when I was like 13.

Lisetning to it nowadays, the verdict is thus: Awful kanawful.

― Roger Fidelity (Roger Fidelity), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I was delighted that there were TWO Verlaines songs on there (one of them Barbara Manning's cover of "Joed Out")...

― Douglas (Douglas), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Barbara's cover is great. I heard it many years ago in a big major supermarket (?) and they played the whole thing unedited... with the "fuck"s and all.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:24 (twenty-one years ago)

god i am a broken record, look at the opening post in the linked thread.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 14 May 2005 14:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Had it... for some reason I was thinking that "Chloe Dancer" was on this album, but that was the Singles soundtrack, wasn't it? I remember getting them at the same time in high school, and those two are still uber 90s albums to me.

― lyra (lyra), Sunday, 15 May 2005 03:08 (twenty-one years ago)

was this the one where the verlaines covered 'some fantasy' and graeme downes explained how he fixed the song? i almost bought it for that song. or that could have been another compilation.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 15 May 2005 03:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Anthrax's Beastie Boys cover was great on that, as I recall.

"99 Ways To Die" is the Beastie Boys?

No, if we're talking the Beavis & Butthead comp., wasn't it "Lookin' Down the Barrel of a Gun"?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Sunday, 15 May 2005 10:49 (twenty-one years ago)

was this the one where the verlaines covered 'some fantasy' and graeme downes explained how he fixed the song? i almost bought it for that song. or that could have been another compilation.

Another comp, this one has the song "Heavy 33".

Personal history: bought the CD the week it came out ("Oh no! Sonic Youth track is only on cassette!"); At the time I probably liked the a good chunk of it, with the Verlaines, Beasties and Nirvana standing out. Today I still really like the Verlaines song.

― Vic Funk, Sunday, 15 May 2005 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

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